Dr_Ruminahui

I think this has run its course. Note, if you want a moderator to take action because of a member's behaviour, you should really use the report button - we aren't necessarily reading every thread closely, or reading it in the same light as a particular member may be. Dr. R.

You've definitely unlocked the secret technique to get all the badges - compete in all the strongholds!

ASTARTES | IMPERIUM | CHAOS | XENOS | HERESY Call to Arms 2025 Final Summary First of all, thankyou to the newcomers and returning members who participated in the 2025 Call to Arms, whether or not you completed your Vows, you have all made the event the success it has been. Between the five Strongholds, we completed 3,028 pts. of painted models which is an OUTSTANDING result by any metric. Stronghold Artificers POLLS: ASTARTES | IMPERIUM | CHAOS | XENOS | HERESY Across the five Strongholds, the Mods and Admins faced the difficult task of voting for their favourite entries from within each Stronghold. These three entries then faced off against one another in a Frater Poll to claim the title, and badge of Stronghold Artificr. Below you will find the five Stronghold Artificers, please join me in congratulating them on their oustanding entries, Master Artificer POLL: MASTER ARTIFICER POLL Once the five Stronghold Artificers had been selected by the Frater, they faced a new poll against one another, this time to claim the title and badge of Master Artificer. Surviving three rounds of voting, from a sea of outstanding entries, please join me in congratulating 2025's Call to Arms Master Artificer... Favourite Young Blood We had no frater participating as Young Bloods this year, so Call to Arms 2025 has no award for this category. Master of the Forge POLL: MASTER OF THE FORGE This year's Master of the Forge featured 13 entries, each a masterpiece in their own right. While there were a number of popular entrants, there are two that rose to the top - with the winner beating out Volgon's Dark Apostle by 1 vote. Please join me in congratulating 2025's Master of the Forge... Grand Marshal We had a total of four frater complete more than 100 points of models, a truely monumental achievement. Competing in the Xenos Strongold, we had @Bouargh complete 117pts worth of models, in the Heresy Stronghold, we had @Dwango complete 152 pts worth of models, and across the Imperial, Chaos, and Xenos forums @Antarius competed 297pts worth of models. However, even this very impressive point total was not enough to secure the title of Grand Marshal, which went to.... Now we come to the answer we've all been waiting for; Which Stronghold has claimed victory, and bragging rights over the others? Masters of the Horde This badge is awarded to the participants of the Stronghold that completed the highest overall points worth of models. Please join me in congratulating the.... Masters of the Call This badge is awarded to the Participants of the Stronghold that has the Highest Participation vs. Completion Percentage. Please join me in congratulating the... and with that, we are at the end. Thank you all, once again. Without your participation and support, this event would not be the success it was, so pat yourselves on the back, maybe even a high-five, you all deserve it. Hoping to see you all at the next Forge Event..... ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Previously there have been some issues with sizing/formatting to add these Badges into you Signatures, the *best and most reliable* way we've found to reduce these issues is to; - Right click on the badge - Select "Copy Image Link" - Paste the link into your signature, and the forum software will automatically turn it into the image.

Call to Arms 2025 Astartes Stronghold Summary First of all, thank you to the newcomers and returning members who participated in the 2025 Call to Arms, whether or not you completed your Vows, you have all made the event the success it has been. Between the five Strongholds, we all painted 3,028 points of MODELS, which is an OUTSTANDING result by any metric. Second, I apologize for my delay in posting the final summaries - I had started to them fairly promptly, belatedly realized that I didn't have all the badges I needed, and by the time I did my life had gotten incredibly busy and stressful. So I'm sorry for all those who have been waiting. Third, thank you all to those who extended their thanks and appreciation through out the event. I know I'm not very good at responding or acknowledging such, tending to brush it aside and focus on the matters at hand. Anyway, I wanted to let you know that it is appreciated, so thank you and you're welcome. Fourth, a big thank you to @Grotsmasha, for all the fantastic art used in the announcement posts and badges, his advice on things like point costs for models, and all of his past work creating the rules and framework for the event with the first and previous Call to Arms. So, how did the Astartes Forums and Stronghold perform throughout the Event? Total Points Vowed: 725.5 Total Points Completed: 593.5 Completion Ratio (Points): 81.81% Number of Participants: 24 Number of Participants who completed all vows: 20 Completion Ratio (Participants): 83.33% Even with having been hived off from the rest of the Imperium this year, the Astartes had the highest number of participants of all the Strongholds this year. That said, and despite having an impressive completion percentage, its (relatively) low vowed points meant it finished in the middle of the pack in terms of competed points. Adeptus Astartes - Participants vs Completed: 7/6 (85.71%), Pledged: 233 pts vs Completed: 181 pts - 77.68% Completion This was the Stronghold sub faction with the highest number of participants and the highest pledged points, which allowed it to achieve the highest completed points despite a failed vow, earning its participants the right to the Champions of the Horde Badge. Black Templars - Participants vs Completed: 4/2 (50%), Pledged: 109 pts vs Completed: 55 pts - 50.46% Completion Though the Templars had a respectable number of participants and a decent vowed point total, only half the participants completed their vows. I guess the Templars who too busy trying to get into melee to paint. Blood Angels - Participants vs Completed: 4/4 (100%), Pledged: 119 pts vs Completed: 119 pts - 100% Completion Completing all their 6 vows, the Blood Angels participants achieved the 3rd highest points total of completed Astartes vows, and earned the right to bare the Champions of the Call Badge. Dark Angels - Participants vs Completed: 6/6 (100%), Pledged: 176.5 pts vs Completed: 176.5 pts - 100% Completion With the second highest vowed points of the Astartes sub factions, their perfect completion rate almost gave them the highest total of completed points, being edged out by the Astartes sub faction by less than 5 points. This was an impressive feat and their perfect completion rate earns the Dark Angels participants the right to bare the Champions of the Call Badge. Space Wolves - Participants vs Completed: 1/0 (0%), Pledged: 26 pts vs Completed: 0 pts - 0% Completion The Sons of Fenris unfortunately only had one participant, who failed to complete his vow. Ultramarines - Participants vs Completed: 1/1 (100%), Pledged: 37 pts vs Completed: 37 pts - 100% Completion The Ultramarines also only had one participant, but he completed his vow, permitting him to use the Champions of the Call Badge. Grey Knights - Participants vs Completed: 1/1 (100%), Pledged: 25 pts vs Completed: 25 pts - 100% Completion Similarly, the Grey Knights also only had one participant, who likewise completed their vow, permitting them to use the Champions of the Call Badge. As with most Events, there are of course Badges for Individual Achievements within the Stronghold, Starting with those who did not Complete their Vows, the Servitor Badge, these Participants are honour-bound to bear this Badge until years end. @Jhadzaan @Lork @nusphigor @W.A.Rorie For Completing 1-9pts within the Call to Arms, the Completed Badge, @Dr. Clock @Lostrael For Completing 10-24pts within the Call to Arms, the Veteran Badge, @Brother Christopher @G8Keeper @Grotsmasha @Paladin777 @RXtacy For Completing 25-44pts within the Call to Arms, the Sergeant Badge, @Boc @Chaplain Raeven @Deus_Ex_Machina @Focslain @jaxom @Jolemai @Karhedron @Lord_Ikka @StrawHatter @Wormwoods For Completing 45-74pts within the Call to Arms, the Lieutenant Badge, @greatcrusade08 @Halandaar For Completing 75-99pts within the Call to Arms, the Captain Badge, @crimsondave For completing +100pts within the Call to Arms, the Chapter Master Badge, Congratulations to @crimsondave for Completing 78 pts worth of models, which was the most points in the Astartes Stronghold, and claiming the title of Astartes Champion. Additionally, the top 3 voted entries (4 in this case, as we had a tie for 3rd) on the Stronghold Artificer Poll are entitled to wear the Stronghold Artificer Badges. Congratulations to @Brother Christopher, @Jolemai & @Wormwoods for their fantastic entries, earning themselves the Artificer Badge. Additionally, having won the Astartes Artificer pole, @Chaplain Raeven is entitled to wear the extra spiffy gold bordered version. Brother Christopher's Techmarine: Jolemai's Void Shield Generator Wormwood's Terminator Captain Chaplain Raeven's Chaplain Please check out the Call to Arms 2025 Summary Thread for the final event announcements and comparisons between the Strongholds. Thank you again to everyone for participating, whether it be through your vows, completions, comments or votes.

Call to Arms 2025 Imperium Stronghold Summary First of all, thank you to the newcomers and returning members who participated in the 2025 Call to Arms, whether or not you completed your Vows, you have all made the event the success it has been. Between the five Strongholds, we all painted 3,028 points of MODELS, which is an OUTSTANDING result by any metric. Second, I apologize for my delay in posting the final summaries - I had started to them fairly promptly, belatedly realized that I didn't have all the badges I needed, and by the time I did my life had gotten incredibly busy and stressful. So I'm sorry for all those who have been waiting. Third, thank you all to those who extended their thanks and appreciation through out the event. I know I'm not very good at responding or acknowledging such, tending to brush it aside and focus on the matters at hand. Anyway, I wanted to let you know that it is appreciated, so thank you and you're welcome. Fourth, a big thank you to @Grotsmasha, for all the fantastic art used in the announcement posts and badges, his advice on things like point costs for models, and all of his past work creating the rules and framework for the event with the first and previous Call to Arms. So, how did the Imperium Forums and Stronghold perform throughout the Event? Total Points Vowed: 214.5 Total Points Completed: 198.5 Completion Ratio (Points): 92.54% Number of Participants: 7 Number of Participants who completed all vows: 6 Completion Ratio (Participants): 85.71% Despite being hived off from Astartes this year and having the lowest number of participants of any faction, the Imperium Stronghold was able to punch over its weight and achieved the highest points completion ratio of all the Strongholds. Astra Millitarum - Participants vs Completed: 3/2 (66.67%), Pledged: 126 pts vs Completed: 110 pts - 87.30% Completion It says something about the overall Stronghold completion level when the sub faction in the Stronghold with the lowest completion percentage still beats out all the other Stronghold completion percentages. Despite their one failed vow, they were still successful in completing the most points for the Stronghold, earning the Astra Millitarum participants the right to the Champion of the Horde Badge. Imperial Knights - Participants vs Completed: 1/1 (100%), Pledged: 6 pts vs Completed: 6 pts - 100% Completion The smallest vowed points for any of the Imperium sub factions with participants, it somewhat humorously (to me) contained no actual knights. That said, the 100% completion rate earns its 1 participant the right to wear the Champion of the Call Badge. Imperium of Mankind - Participants vs Completed: 2/2 (100%), Pledged: 37.5 pts vs Completed: 37.5 pts - 100% Completion With an eclectic combination of models, both participants of this faction competed their vows and earned the right to bare the Champions of the Call Badge. Death Watch - Participants vs Completed: 1/1 (100%), Pledged: 45 pts vs Completed: 45 pts - 100% Completion This year's one Death Watch participant decided to paint his models for the Imperial Stronghold this year (this was the one sub faction that could contribute to 2 different strongholds, the other being Astartes), and managing to complete his 2 vows earned himself the right to the Imperium Champion of the Call Badge. As with most Events, there are of course Badges for Individual Achievements within the Stronghold, Starting with those who did not Complete their Vows, the Servitor Badge, these Participants are honour-bound to bear this Badge until years end. @GSCUprising For Completing 1-9pts within the Call to Arms, the Completed Badge, @Karhedron For Completing 10-24pts within the Call to Arms, the Veteran Badge, @Dr. Clock @Lord_Ikka For Completing 25-44pts within the Call to Arms, the Sergeant Badge, @The Pounder For Completing 45-74pts within the Call to Arms, the Captain Badge, @Antarius @Razurok For Completing 75-99pts within the Call to Arms, the General Badge, For completing +100pts within the Call to Arms, the Theatre Commander Badge, Congratulations to @Razurok for Completing 71 pts worth of models, which was the most points in the Imperium Stronghold, and claiming the title of Imperium Champion. Additionally, the top 3 voted entries on the Stronghold Artificer Poll are entitled to wear the Stronghold Artificer Badges. Congratulations to @Dr. Clock and @Razurok for their fantastic entries, earning themselves the Artificer Badge. Additionally, having won the Imperium Artificer pole, @The Pounder is entitled to wear the extra spiffy gold bordered version. Dr.Clock's Preacher: Razurok's Death Rider The Pounder's Artillery Please check out the Call to Arms 2025 Summary Thread for the final event announcements and comparisons between the Strongholds. Thank you again to everyone for participating, whether it be through your vows, completions, comments or votes.

Call to Arms 2025 Chaos Stronghold Summary First of all, thank you to the newcomers and returning members who participated in the 2025 Call to Arms, whether or not you completed your Vows, you have all made the event the success it has been. Between the five Strongholds, we all painted 3,028 points of MODELS, which is an OUTSTANDING result by any metric. Second, I apologize for my delay in posting the final summaries - I had started to them fairly promptly, belatedly realized that I didn't have all the badges I needed, and by the time I did my life had gotten incredibly busy and stressful. So I'm sorry for all those who have been waiting. Third, thank you all to those who extended their thanks and appreciation through out the event. I know I'm not very good at responding or acknowledging such, tending to brush it aside and focus on the matters at hand. Anyway, I wanted to let you know that it is appreciated, so thank you and you're welcome. Fourth, a big thank you to @Grotsmasha, for all the fantastic art used in the announcement posts and badges, his advice on things like point costs for models, and all of his past work creating the rules and framework for the event with the first and previous Call to Arms. So, how did the Chaos Forums and Stronghold perform throughout the Event? Total Points Vowed: 843 Total Points Completed: 560 Completion Ratio (Points): 66.43% Number of Participants: 18 Number of Participants who completed all vows: 13 Completion Ratio (Participants): 72.22% Unfortunately, this year the Chaos forces suffered both from a middling total of points vowed (being 3rd of the 5 factions) with the second lowest completion rate. Demons - Participants vs Completed: 3/2 (66.67%), Pledged: 181 pts vs Completed: 133 pts - 73.48% Completion Demons completed 3 of their 4 vows, for a respectable showing and allowing them to punch above the Stronghold as a whole. Chaos Knights - Participants vs Completed: 3/2 (66.67%), Pledged: 171 pts vs Completed: 151 pts - 88.30% Completion Chaos Knights had 3 times as many participants as last year, 2/3 of whom were able to complete their vows. Given the comparatively larger vows of these participants, this gives the Chaos Knights the highest completed points total of the stronghold, and its participants the right to bare the Champions of the Horde Badge. Heretic Astartes - Participants vs Completed: 4/4 (100%), Pledged: 94 pts vs Completed: 94 pts - 100% Completion Down from 15 participants last year to 4 this year (likely due to diffusion of the God aligned legions into their own sub factions this year), the Heretic Astartes made up for it in completed vows, beating last year's impressive completion rate of 98.5% with an even more impressive 100%. This grants all of the Heretic Astartes participants the right to bear the Champions of the Call Badge. Death Guard - Participants vs Completed: 1/0 (0 %), Pledged: 76 pts vs Completed: 0 pts - 0% Completion Unfortunately, the Death Guard this year suffered from the forces of entropy, having only one participant who failed to complete their vow. Emperor's Children - Participants vs Completed: 1/1 (100%), Pledged: 36 pts vs Completed: 36 pts - 100% Completion A new subfaction this year, it had one participant (me), who completed my fairly modest (though my highest in CtA) vow. This permits me to wear the Champions of the Call Badge - its a lot easier to reach a 100% completion rate with only 1 participant. Thousand Sons- Participants vs Completed: 1/0 (0%), Pledged: 28 pts vs Completed: 0 pts - 0% Completion Like the Death Guard, the Thousand Sons appear to have suffered the fate of having a fickle master, with only 1 participant and no completed vows. World Eaters - Participants vs Completed: 1/1 (100%), Pledged: 17 pts vs Completed: 17 pts - 100% Completion Another new subfaction with only one participant, but in this case they completed their vow, earning their subfaction (aka them) the right to wear the Champion of the Call Badge. Realm of Chaos- Participants vs Completed: 4/3 (75%), Pledged: 240 pts vs Completed: 129 pts - 53.75% Completion Despite having the highest vowed points for the Chaos sub factions and a respectable overall participant completion rate of 75%, the sub faction suffered from having almost 1/2 of its vowed points in its 1 uncompleted vow. Still, that's very faithful to the background, for the hubris of chaos to be its downfall - so kudos there. As with most Events, there are of course Badges for Individual Achievements within the Stronghold, Starting with those who did not Complete their Vows, the Spawn Badge, these Participants are honour-bound to bear this Badge until years end. @Iron Warrior w/ Servo Arm @Metzombie @Norman Paperman @nusphigor @Teetengee For Completing 1-9pts within the Call to Arms, the Completed Badge, @Volgon For Completing 10-24pts within the Call to Arms, the Chosen Badge, @Dr. Clock @gaurdian31 @Scion @Tallarn Commander For Completing 25-44pts within the Call to Arms, the Aspiring Champion Badge, @Cryptix @Dr_Ruminahui @WBRBloom For Completing 45-74pts within the Call to Arms, the Champion Badge, @Agnostic Doggo @Madao @sitnam For Completing 75-99pts within the Call to Arms, the Lord Badge, @Boc For completing +100pts within the Call to Arms, the Master of the Void Badge, @Antarius Congratulations to @Antarius for Completing 113 pts worth of models, which was the most points in the Chaos Stronghold, and claiming the title of Chaos Champion. Additionally, the top 3 voted entries on the Stronghold Artificer Poll are entitled to wear the Stronghold Artificer Badges. Congratulations to @Boc and @Dr. Clock for their fantastic entries, earning themselves the Artificer Badge. Additionally, having won the Chaos Artificer pole, @Volgon is entitled to wear the extra spiffy gold bordered version. Boc's Knight Lancer: Dr.Clock's Scarbrand Volgon's Dark Apostle Please check out the Call to Arms 2025 Summary Thread for the final event announcements and comparisons between the Strongholds. Thank you again to everyone for participating, whether it be through your vows, completions, comments or votes.

Call to Arms 2025 Xenos Stronghold Summary First of all, thank you to the newcomers and returning members who participated in the 2025 Call to Arms, whether or not you completed your Vows, you have all made the event the success it has been. Between the five Strongholds, we all painted 3,028 points of MODELS, which is an OUTSTANDING result by any metric. Second, I apologize for my delay in posting the final summaries - I had started to them fairly promptly, belatedly realized that I didn't have all the badges I needed, and by the time I did my life had gotten incredibly busy and stressful. So I'm sorry for all those who have been waiting. Third, thank you all to those who extended their thanks and appreciation through out the event. I know I'm not very good at responding or acknowledging such, tending to brush it aside and focus on the matters at hand. Anyway, I wanted to let you know that it is appreciated, so thank you and you're welcome. Fourth, a big thank you to @Grotsmasha, for all the fantastic art used in the announcement posts and badges, his advice on things like point costs for models, and all of his past work creating the rules and framework for the event with the first and previous Call to Arms. So, how did the Xenos Forums and Stronghold perform throughout the Event? Total Points Vowed: 1035 Total Points Completed: 839 Completion Ratio (Points): 81.06% Number of Participants: 21 Number of Participants who completed all vows: 16 Completion Ratio (Participants): 76.19% This was clearly the Stronghold that aimed high and hit their mark - Xenos having the highest completed points of Call to Arms 2025. Aeldari - Participants vs Completed: 4/1 (25%), Pledged: 240 pts vs Completed: 98 pts - 40.83% Completion The Aeldari again had a tough time of it this year, despite having the highest total points pledged, only one of the participants completing their vows. Still, its an improvement over their completion rate from last year. Drukhari - Participants vs Completed: 4/4 Pledged (100%): 175 pts vs Completed: 175 pts - 100% Completion With no participants last year, this year the Dark Eldar hit the ground running, making and completing 8 vows, tied for the 2nd highest points completion of the Xenos subfactions. Clearly, the B&C frater prefer their Eldar without sugar or cream. Their 100% completion rate has earned all Drukhari participants the Champions of the Call Badge. Leagues of Votann- Participants vs Completed: 1/1 (100%) Pledged: 62.5 pts vs Completed: 62.5 pts - 100% Completion Another subfaction with no participants last time, the Votann met their duty, with the single participant completing all three vows. This feat and 100% completion rate has also earned him/her the right to the Champions of the Call Badge. Necrons - Participants vs Completed: 3/3 (100%), Pledged: 181 pts vs Completed: 181 pts - 100% Completion The forces of the Necrontyr are inexorable, and roused from their slumber to complete all 4 of their collective vows and complete the most points of all the Xenos subfactions. Like last year, this 100% completion rate has also them the Champions of the Call Badge, and the highest completed points earns them the Champion of the Horde Badge. Orks - Participants vs Completed: 4/4 (100%), Pledged: 147.5 pts vs Completed: 147.5 pts - 100% Completion The Ork hordes (well, all 4 of them) completed all of their collective six vows, again earning the Orks the right to the bare the Champions of the Call Badge for achieving the coveted 100% Completed rate. T'au - Participants vs Completed: 1/0 (0 %), Pledged: 10 pts vs Completed: 0 pts - 0.00% Completion From the most Xenos points completed last year to the least, a true swing of fortune and the lowest possible completion rate. Better luck next year. Tyranids - Participants vs Completed: 4/3 (75%), Pledged: 214 pts vs Completed: 175pts - 79.91% Completion With the second highest pledged points, the Ravenous Swarm would have had the highest points in completed models but for 1 failed vow. That said, still a very respectful showing, tying them for second with Drukhari. As with most Events, there are of course Badges for Individual Achievments within the Stronghold, Starting with those who did not Complete their Vows, the Xenocide Badge, these Participants are honour-bound to bear this Badge until years end. @Brother Argent @GSCUprising @Magos Takatus @Silvereyes @ZeroWolf For Completing 1-9pts within the Call to Arms, the Completed Badge, @Grotsmasha @Mike Zulu For Completing 10-24pts within the Call to Arms, the Warden of the Stars Badge, @Alby the Slayer @Kora'tau @ThePenitentOne @zulu.tango For Completing 25-44pts within the Call to Arms, the Warrior of the Stars Badge, @Dr. Clock @Khulu @Rusted Boltgun For Completing 45-74pts within the Call to Arms, the Hero of the Stars Badge, @AvePicante For Completing 75-99pts within the Call to Arms, the Champion of the Stars Badge, @drakheart @firestorm40k @lokkorex @YoungWolf7 For completing +100pts within the Call to Arms, the Master of the Void Badge, @Antarius @Bouargh Congratulations to @Antarius for Completing 139 pts worth of models, which was the most points in the Xenos Stronghold, and claiming the title of Xenos Champion. This is only 1 point less than last year's Xenos Champion. Additionally, the top 3 voted entries on the Stronghold Artificer Poll are entitled to wear the Stronghold Artificer Badges. Congratulations to @YoungWolf7 and @zulu.tango for their fantastic entries, earning themselves the Artificer Badge. Additionally, having won the Xenos Artificer pole, @Alby the Slayer is entitled to wear the extra spiffy gold bordered version. Alby the Slayer's Drukhari tantalus: YoungWolf7's Ork jawbreaka zulu-tango's Tau vespid Please check out the Call to Arms 2025 Summary Thread for the final event announcements and comparisons between the Strongholds. Thank you again to everyone for participating, whether it be through your vows, completions, comments or votes.

Call to Arms 2025 Heresy Stronghold Summary First of all, thank you to the newcomers and returning members who participated in the 2025 Call to Arms, whether or not you completed your Vows, you have all made the event the success it has been. Between the five Strongholds, we all painted 3,028 points of MODELS, which is an OUTSTANDING result by any metric. Second, I apologize for my delay in posting the final summaries - I had started to them fairly promptly, belatedly realized that I didn't have all the badges I needed, and by the time I did my life had gotten incredibly busy and stressful. So I'm sorry for all those who have been waiting. Third, thank you all to those who extended their thanks and appreciation through out the event. I know I'm not very good at responding or acknowledging such, tending to brush it aside and focus on the matters at hand. Anyway, I wanted to let you know that it is appreciated, so thank you and you're welcome. Fourth, a big thank you to @Grotsmasha, for all the fantastic art used in the announcement posts and badges, his advice on things like point costs for models, and all of his past work creating the rules and framework for the event with the first and previous Call to Arms. So, how did the Heresy Forum and Stronghold perform throughout the Event? Total Points Vowed: 1413 Total Points Completed: 837 Completion Ratio (Points): 59.24% Number of Participants: 18 Number of Participants who completed all vows: 11 Completion Ratio (Participants): 61.11% This was clearly the Stronghold of aiming high - unfortunately, though, many flew too close to the sun. The Emperor - Participants vs Completed: 13/8 (61.50%), Pledged: 778 pts vs Completed: 588 pts - 69.23% Completion @SgtSharp once again is the master of massive vow, vowing and completing an almost incomprehensible 410 points - over half of both the vowed and completed the points for the Emperor's Forces. This, and the efforts of the other Loyalist participants, allowed them to triumph over the Legions of the Warmaster and has has earned them both the Champions of the Horde and Champions of the Call badges for their signatures. The Warmaster - Participants vs Completed: 5/3 (60%) Pledged: 635 pts vs Completed: 249 pts - 39.21% Completion The Legions of the Warmaster vowed very competitively with their Loyalist brothers, but unfortunately were unable to complete their largest vow while the Emperor's forces did. Despite a valiant showing otherwise, this lead to them being unable to catch up to the Emperor's lead in vowed points and having almost 3 times as many participants. As with most Events, there are of course Badges for Individual Achievements within the Stronghold, Starting with those who did not Complete their Vows, the Servitor Badge, these Participants are honour-bound to bear this Badge until years end. @GodEmperorOfMankind @Iron Father Ferrum @lokkorex @Lord Marshal @Shard of Magnus @Trokair @W.A.Rorie For Completing 1-9pts within the Call to Arms, the Completed Badge, @Blissful Brushes @SvenIronhand For Completing 10-24pts within the Call to Arms, the Legionaire Badge, @librisrouge @time_of_flight For Completing 25-44pts within the Call to Arms, the Sergeant Badge, @Cryptix @Mandragola For Completing 45-74pts within the Call to Arms, the Consul Badge, @Deus_Ex_Machina @Lautrec the Embraced @richmarine For Completing 75-99pts within the Call to Arms, the Praetor Badge, For Completing +100pts within the Call to Arms, the Legion Master Badge, @Dwango @SgtSharp Congratulations to @SgtSharp for Completing 410pts worth of models, which was the most points in the Heresy Stronghold, and claiming the title of Heresy Champion. This beats his showing last year as Heresy Champion by 24 points. Additionally, the top 3 voted entries on the Stronghold Artificer Poll are entitled to wear the Stronghold Artificer Badges. Congratulations to @Lautrec the Embraced and @time_of_flight for their fantastic entries, earning themselves the Artificer Badge. And @richmarine, for his winning the Heresy Artificer vote gets to wear an extra-spiffy gold bordered version. richmarine's Salamanders assault squad: Lautrec the Embraced's Night Lords terminator squad time_of_flight's Dark Angels saturnine terminators Please check out the Call to Arms 2025 Summary Thread for the final event announcements and comparisons between the Strongholds. Thank you again to everyone for participating, whether it be through your vows, completions, comments or votes.

Grabbed the EC box - nothing I want to add to my army just yet, but with rules changes on units over editions I can see all of it being playable. Plus, it meant I essentially bought 2 units that I was somewhat interested in (the noise marines, bringing me to 3 squads, and Fulgrim) plus 6 flawless blades essentially for free. No current plans to use the 12 flawless blades I now have (from this and the combat patrol), but they might be good some edition.

This is definitely the one he is talking about - I remember buying it for a friend at the time. And no, I don't remember any additional material for it - the first edition of Kill Team with additional rules support was the one after Shadow War. I wasn't a fan of ShadowWar, though it was a great deal in terms of terrain. In terms of play, I suspect a large part of my disenchantment was the match-up - all "kill teams" were capped at 10 models, except for orks, who could have 20. The short campaign I played was my imperial guard against my friend's orks - it was pretty ballanced when we were 10 vs 10, but let me tell you 10 guardsmen, no matter how kitted up, are no match for 20 orks. The edition of killteam after that was definitely my favourite - though again, that may have been because my guard were quite good in it, though I don't think that's entirely it as I also liked how it played very differently from 40K with very similar rules. I haven't been able to play any of the newer versions, as my head doesn't have enough room for an entirely different ruleset given how little I play.

He looks great, @Captain Idaho.

Thanks, @W.A.Rorie and @Vairocanum - I'm glad you like them. I must admit I'm pleasantly surprised at how well slannesh symbols can be made into camoflage. Got tired of my friend's necrons kicking my teeth in when playing... well, pretty much anything (though recently its been my CSM and Emperor's Children) so decided to throw my knights at him, as that's the only army I've ever fielded against him (in 1 game in 9th) where he's struggled. And while I was at it, I thought I would make improve my current force's firepower some, by converting me some despoiler gatling cannons. This first one was my proof of concept - its basically just a new shield and gun attached to the backend of the rapid fire battlecannon. Here are two photos of it alongside the GW one. And equiped by one of my knights. Its made of some GW bits (the gun is the forgefiend hades autocannon with the back cut off, the shield is from the AoS Chaos Warriors kit, the flamer and tank are from the 2nd ed. vehicle accessory sprue, and the chaos star is from the chaos vehicle accessory sprue), plasticard and a bit of greenstuff. The last is something new for me - I used a greenstuff mold to create the bulge behind the gun, as the plumbing part I got it from was too much effort to saw through to get the one part of it I wanted. Last picture is the conversion without any of my pre-existing knight bits. which the various plumbing supplies I bought trying to figure out the best way to do the armoured bulge between the barrels and the shield. The one on the far right is the one I went with, with the greenstuff mold of it just below the gun. To the left are other parts I considered (I was guessing as to the proper size, so I bought a bunch of options to try out which one worked best), and the top bits are the parts that came with the other ones that I was considering using. Anyway, my proof of concept worked, so I'll be building 3 more of them. They will all be basically the same except 2 of them will have the gas tanks on the other side, and the top shields will all be a bit different, as the shields in the warrior's kit are all slightly different. Oh, and hopefully the top shields will be straight on those unlike on this one where its a bit off centre.

Got tired of my friend's necrons kicking my teeth in when playing... well, pretty much anything (though recently its been my CSM and Emperor's Children) so decided to throw my knights at him, as that's the only army I've ever fielded against him (in 1 game in 9th) where he's struggled. And while I was at it, I thought I would make improve my current force's firepower some, by converting me some despoiler gatling cannons. This first one was my proof of concept - its basically just a new shield and gun attached to the backend of the rapid fire battlecannon. Here are two photos of it alongside the GW one. And equiped by one of my knights. Its made of some GW bits (the gun is the forgefiend hades autocannon with the back cut off, the shield is from the AoS Chaos Warriors kit, the flamer and tank are from the 2nd ed. vehicle accessory sprue, and the chaos star is from the chaos vehicle accessory sprue), plasticard and a bit of greenstuff. The last is something new for me - I used a greenstuff mold to create the bulge behind the gun, as the plumbing part I got it from was too much effort to saw through to get the one part of it I wanted. Last picture is the conversion without any of my pre-existing knight bits. which the various plumbing supplies I bought trying to figure out the best way to do the armoured bulge between the barrels and the shield. The one on the far right is the one I went with, with the greenstuff mold of it just below the gun. To the left are other parts I considered (I was guessing as to the proper size, so I bought a bunch of options to try out which one worked best), and the top bits are the parts that came with the other ones that I was considering using. Anyway, my proof of concept worked, so I'll be building 3 more of them. They will all be basically the same except 2 of them will have the gas tanks on the other side, and the top shields will all be a bit different, as the shields in the warrior's kit are all slightly different. Oh, and hopefully the top shields will be straight on those unlike on this one where its a bit off centre.

He looks great - particularly like the wings. How much of a height difference does taking him off the rocks make?